Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology.(Book review)

Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology. Chen Shen and Susan G. Keates, eds. BAR International Series 1179. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2003.

China has been for a long time a large landmass of which little was known by way of its prehistoric record. The narratives of human evolution on which I have been brought up focused on various parts of the Old World, almost invariably ending with a caveat: "But we know very little about China. We predict that intriguing things will come out of China that could change the whole picture."

Indeed. Chinese Pleistocene ...

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